When the ship's bell struck the eighth strike, the boatman on duty stopped ringing, and the crisp sound of the bell echoed on the deck of the flagship Chaos for a long time. Under the gloomy sky, there were still a few traces of mist in the green ocean at noon. Holding the frost flower in the mirror, the red mortar found nothing, and the same was true of the lookout hand on the mast. Ahead, as usual, there was an endless sea of cold green, and every pore of it exuded malice under the cold wind.

"The Great Priest blesses!" The red man prayed helplessly, and the heating exhaled from his mouth instantly condensed into mist. Following him, the boatmen and sailors on the deck prayed together for the land to appear sooner.

"Latitude geometry?" The red mob asked after the prayer.

"General, latitude fifty." This is a cloudy day, and it has been cloudy for more than ten days in a row. But with the help of calcite, the Witch was still able to accurately measure the latitude of the fleet. When the red man was questioned, the latitude was fifty.

"General, sail due east." The helmsman followed the instructions, and after setting sail from that land, the fleet sailed eastward with the west wind, and remained unchanged.

After bypassing the storm-ravaged Nanyang Land, it was obvious that the Gluttony-class Sea Boat and the Chaos-class gunboats would not be able to follow the route traveled by the New Suzaku-class flying shear. After the red mob bypassed the Nanyang Land, the fleet quickly moved north by taking advantage of the ocean currents in the South Green Ocean and the southeast monsoon, but it did not sail due north, but to the northwest, and in ten days it saw a piece of land.

According to the map, this land should be the eastern part of Dongzhou. At this time, a strange thing happened, driven by the currents, the fleet did not continue to move north, but south, even if the bow was facing due north. The fleet retreated to the south, and the latitude returned to the latitude of Nanyangdi, and then a strong westerly wind blew the fleet back to the vicinity of Nanzhou.

At this point, the red machine could only repeat its previous route again, and once again followed the ocean current west of Nanyangdi and the southeast monsoon to the north. Instead of following the crowd, he managed to adjust the course to due north. This time he succeeded, and when the fleet once again saw the islands in the eastern part of Dongzhou, the ocean currents under his feet continued to carry the fleet north. When the westerly wind in the Northern Hemisphere is encountered, it turns eastward and continues eastward.

From the perspective of later generations, he made a circle in the South Atlantic. For the first time, the Benguela cold current west of the Cape of Good Hope and the southeast trade winds took him northwest to the northwest. When you reach the equator, the South Equatorial Warm Current and the North Equatorial Warm Current are adjacent. If it follows the South Equatorial Warm Current to the west to reach Brazil, it is likely to follow the southward Brazilian Warm Current and return to the southern hemisphere westerly wind belt at the southern tip of South America. The North Equatorial Warm Current will inevitably follow the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Current, and go north to the westerly wind belt of the Northern Hemisphere.

This is also the secret of the Atlantic route: the South Atlantic Current flows clockwise, and the North Atlantic Current flows counterclockwise. The two sides meet at the equator. However, without seeing the land, the red mob has no way to determine this for the time being.

"Keep course." He suppressed the disappointment in his heart and ordered the fleet to continue on course at fifty degrees north latitude. The Captain of the Hook once reported that the latitude of the Dakhlacles Pillar was 35.5 north latitude, which means that the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea was south of the fleet.

One of the reasons why he wanted to keep course was that he did not want to leave the westerly wind, which was the only motive for sailboats, although the westerly winds in the northern hemisphere were weaker than those in the southern hemisphere. The second is that, according to the trigonometric function taught by the aviation school, the closer to the equator, the longer the circumference of the spherical earth, and vice versa. The circumference of the equator is 100,000 chuli, but the circumference at 60 degrees north latitude is only 50,000 chuli. At fifty degrees of latitude, the circumference of the earth at this location is about 64,000 chuli.

"Keep course." The helmsmen repeated the Red Pillar's commands. As they shouted, a seabird from nowhere flew over the mast, and it let out several exclamations in an instant, and the bird had probably never seen such majestic sails.

"Birds! Bird ——! The sailors were amazed, then ecstatic. Birds are the guide of the land, and where there are birds, there will be land, and at least there will be islands. Indeed, more than an hour later, the lookout post shouted that land had been discovered.

The fleet had been adrift at sea for more than 20 months, and when they heard that there was land ahead of them and that they were about to arrive in Xizhou, even the sick could not help cheering. According to the last unobtrusive account, perhaps the fleet would soon encounter the Carthaginians and could rest in their harbor.

In winter, the North Atlantic waves are raging, and the ships that have been reinforced by the iron plates are still broken by the wind and waves, and the waves are still surging up the deck and splashing into the cabin from time to time. This is more tormenting nerves than the training ground of the aviation school and the turbulent Yizhou Strait with half a year and half of the year. The desire for rest was everyone's expectation, but when they arrived at the Dakhlacles Pillar at 35 degrees north latitude ten days later, all their expectations were in vain.

"They, they ......" more than 20 Carthaginian warships lined up outside the port of Sabtai south of the pillar. The port of Sabtay was later known as the port of Ceuta, and the port was opposite Gibraltar to the north, blocking the entrance to the strait. Bai Xuan, Xianwei and others, who were on the same Chaos with the Red Spider, were surprised. Carthage should be a friend of the Chu State, how do you see this posture as if it was about to go to war?

"Raise the flag, fight!" The Red Warrior was originally a general of the Boat Division, and the Carthaginian warships were arrayed at the entrance to the Strait, which was not defensive, but offensive. He didn't care what he had done with the Carthaginians before, and now he could only regard the other party as an enemy.

"The general has an order: raise the flag and face the battle!" The order of the red mob was transmitted to the three gunboats of the Hu, Shu and Yu in turn. Four gunboats quickly left the queue, and the spice-laden cargo ships were protected by two new Suzaku-class, the Eagle () and the Wren. They were gradually crossed by gunboats as they dropped their sails, and what had been one column slowly turned into two columns.

The fleet of the Chuni was split in two, and the two warships (the Eagle and the Wren) actually retreated to the rear, and Hasdruba on the deck was somewhat surprised. The warship retreated to protect the cargo ship, so what are the four ships that are coming now?

"What kind of ship is that?" Margo Baca stood on the deck of another battleship, next to the battleship where Hasdruba was. The scene of four Chuni ships, almost indistinguishable from cargo ships, quickly approached him, and this scene was inexplicable. This is a cargo ship, don't the Chuni people know that a single battleship can sink them all?

"I don't know." Hasdruba didn't know what kind of ship it was. He had flown in a Chuni warship, a sea-going ship that could sail against the wind, with six guns on its deck. If it weren't for the two warships that entered the port and dropped anchor last time, the Chuni would have escaped from the Mediterranean.

The four Chuni ships were getting closer and closer, and seeing the Chuni soldiers with shiny armor on the deck, as well as the elderly Chuni general who was huddled, Hasdruba did not hesitate to order: "Sink them." ”

A dozen days earlier, when Carthaginian merchant ships on their way to Britannia had discovered the Chuni fleet, news quickly spread to the new city (present-day Cartagena), and in a hurry Hasdruba had assembled only twenty-three warships, most of which were three-oared warships—the result of the war with the Romans, of course. However, Hasdruba believed that twenty-three warships would be enough to send the Chuni fleet to the bottom of the sea.

As if seeing a flock of wolves, twenty-three Carthaginian battleships rushed closer and closer to four gunboats. The west wind was strong, and the gunboats were moving downwind in columns, and the three-oared battleships were moving against the wind in a horizontal formation. When the two sides entered a nautical mile, under the surprise of Hasdruba and others, the Chuni boat, which was getting closer and closer, suddenly turned, and the column gradually turned into a horizontal line.

Taking advantage of the fierce westerly winds, a column might be able to rush through the Shizhu Strait into the Mediterranean, and run to the ports of the Romans or the Romans' allies to take refuge, and now the Chuni have turned their columns into horizontal columns, aren't they waiting for their own impact?

Led by Margo Baka, the Carthaginian soldiers and oarsmen cheered. Hasdruba, who knew the Chuni people best, became more and more suspicious, and he felt that these four Chuni ships were definitely not cargo ships, but should be war ships. Unfortunately, due to the low deck of the three-oared battleship, he never saw whether there were any guns on the deck of the Chuni ship.

"Open the cannon door!" The enemy is getting closer and closer, and the four gunboats of our own side are separated by a chain from end to end, and they meet the enemy in a horizontal formation, and the battle line is already lined up. The west wind pushed the gunboat closer to the enemy's warship, and when it was six hundred meters, the red boat gave the order to open the gun door.

"Open the cannon door." The order echoed on the gun decks of the ships, the gun doors had just been opened, and the next order came: "Target: enemy warship, solid shells, salvo ......"

As Hasdruba thought, it was indeed the battleship that came on his head. Across the four battleships facing them, the bulwarks unexpectedly opened twelve narrow windows, through which the artillery was pushed out.

"Fire ......," he shouted just one word, and his voice was muffled by the fierce sound of cannonball. The dull roar of the thirty-two pound cannon echoed in this turbulent sea. It was difficult to hit the target at a distance of more than 500 meters, but the flames and smoke from the muzzle of the gun shocked everyone. It's not that they haven't heard the sound of artillery, but they have never heard such a continuous sound of artillery.

At the same time as the cannonballs hit, many Carthaginian soldiers on the three-oared battleship couldn't help but look up at the sky. This is the roar of Zeus, and it should not be outside the pillars of Dakhlacles, at the end of the world. As they looked up, the cannonballs either hit the battleship and flew out of the stern with blood after penetration; Or just skim the deck and reap the lives of those soldiers who look up to the sky.

Even with the upper hand, the artillery deck was filled with gunsmoke, and before the salvo was finished, the deck was full of gun commanders' shouts: "Reload!" Quick Reload!! ”

The enemy is not the Qi and Pandians, the old wings that cannot be rammed, the enemy is a new type of wings similar to the Seleucids. In the Persian Gulf, both warships fought each other, and both sides paid the price, after which the Chu gunboats chose to blockade the Persian Gulf from a distance. No one wanted to be hit by the enemy's large-winged warships again, so as soon as the fire was finished, the gun commander shouted in a hurry to reload.

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